Explodible paper toy.



` Patented June I0, |902.. M T.v LYNCH & A. R. HSBSDN. EXPLODIBLE PAPER TOY.`

(Application filed Jan. 16. 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT Y OEEICE.

MORRIS T. LYNCH AND ALBERT R. HIBSON, OE BROOKLYN, NEw YORK, .ASSIGNORs TO THE NATIONAL FOLDING BOX .t PAPER COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OE NEW JERSEY.

EXPLODIBLE PAPER TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 702,065, dated June 10, 1902.`

Application filed January 16, 1901. Serial No. 43,500. (No modelQ T all whom t may concern,.-

Be itknown that we, MORRIS T. LYNCH and ALBERT R. HI'BsON, citizens of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city and Stateof New York, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in EX- plodible Paper Toys, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a form of blank Io adapted to embody our invention, being a blank for the production Of a knockdown or collapsible toy gunboat; Fig. 2, a plan view of the boat as it appears when set up; Fig.

3, a View of the boat in vertical longitudinal central section on the line ab of Fig. 2, showing the location of a fire-cracker in the boat; Fig. 4, a view of the boat in side elevation with the fire-cracker removed; Fig. 5, aview of the boat inA horizontal sectionon the line zo c ol of Fig. 4; Fig. 6, a view of the boat as it appears when knocked down ready for shipment; Fig. 7, a viewin vertical section on the line efof Fig. 6, showing the boat as knocked down.

Our invention relates to an improvement in explodible paper toys, the object being to reproduce at a low cost in manufacture a simple and attractive toy in a form designed for the reception of a fire-cracker, the eXplo- 3o sion of which blows up the toy. Our im! proved toy, as will thus be seen, is particularly adapted for sale to dealers in fireworks.

The embodiment of our invention illustrated in the drawings consists in a knock- .3 5 down or collapsible toy-gunboat blank, comprisinga keel-section, a deck-section, a Websection uniting the said keel and deck sections, a hull-section connected with one edge of the deck-section, and two partial hull-sec- 40 tions respectively forming extensions of the ends of the hull-section iirst described.

Our invention further consists'in certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and

pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out our invention as herein shown we formfrom a single piece of heavy paper a scored blank. For convenience in describing this blank we shall refer to the 5o several members into which the scoring-lines divide it by terms descriptive of the places which they occupy in thel -toy gunboat as used. The blank thus described comprises a keel-section 2, a deck-section 3, a hull-section 4, and two partial hull-sections 5 and 5, 55 respectively located at the opposite ends of the entire hull-section 4. The keel-section 2 is formed upon its outer edge with a narrow assembling-Hap 6, while its opposite edge is joined to the deck-section by means of a web 6o 7, corresponding in width to the flap 6, but considerably narrower than either the deck or keel sections, which are the same length and correspondingly pointed at their bow and stern ends, respectively designated 8 and 9 65 on both of thesesections of the blank. In order to give an upward curve or rake to the bow andv stern ends of the boat, both at the deck and keel, the upper and lower edges of the hulhmembers areV cut on slight upward 7o curves 41,0, which intersect at thevscoring-lines 11, on which the said members are folded. In forming the Vgunboat from this blankI the ends of ythe hull-sections 5 and 5a are overlapped and secured together, as at 12, by an adhesive or otherwise, so that the composite hull section thus formed corresponds in length to the length of theother hull-section 4. The keel-section 2with its assemblingflap 6, is now passed directly lthrough the 8o hull, causing the deck-section to take its place upon the upper edges of the two hull-sections, the web 7 to take its place against the central portion of the inner face of the composite hull-section and permitting the keelsection to be turned up'into its place against the lower edges of the hull-sections, and the assemblinglflapto be 'foldedup against and secured to the central portion of the inner face of the hull-section 4. Theblankis thus 9o brought into the form of atoy gunboat, to

^ at right angles to each other and producing four retaining-teeth 14, in the form of points, which yield readily under downward pressure exerted upon the butt-end of an ordinary roe fire-cracker 15, which is passed down between them. Whether the buttend of the iirecracker rests upon the keel of the boat is immaterial, that depending upon its length and size and the way in which it is put into the boat. When the fire-cracker is in place in the boat, its upper end projects above the deck, so as to give the effect of a smoke-stack. If desired, however, instead of slitting the deck-section, as described, an opening may be cut in it for the reception of the fire-cracker,

i as shown in Fig. 5, which shows by broken lines the deck-section as formed with a circular opening 16, corresponding in diameter to the diameter of an ordinary fire-cracker.

By shaping the blank and securing its sections together as described we are enabled to knock down or collapse the boat into the flat form shown by Figs. 6 or 7, this form being very compact and permitting the boat to be very readily set up again, so to speak. It is designed, of course, that the toy boats shall be supplied to the trade in the folded form.

To knock down the boat, it is only necessary to push downward upon the side of the deck-section 3 having the web-section 7 connected with it. 'I his causes the deck-section to disappear entirely between the hull-sections and also causes the projection of'the said web-section through the keel of the boat and the displacement of the keel-section, so it will lie in the same plane as the now-flattened hull-sections, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

To set up the boat, it is only necessary to turn the keel-section 2 on the hinge of its flap 6 back into position, at which time the websection 7 will be pushed inward between the hull-sections and the deck-section 3 lifted back into place.

By preference the external surfaces of the hull and deck sections will be provided with pictorial representations of water, guns, portholes, chains, armorial devices,deckfxtures, and other features of a gunboat. These representations of course may be widely Varied.

Though we have thus described with particularity the application of our invention to the forin of a collapsible paper gunboat, it will be understood that we do not confine ourselves to such application and that an eX- plodible paper toy representing structures.

other than a vessel--as, for instance, a fort or house-might be employed and constructed in any convenient manner out of paper and combined with an explosive device in the manner pointed out Without departing from our invention.

Having fullydescribed our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p 1. A knockdown or collapsible toy boat blank, comprising a keel-section, a deck-section and hull-sections, the latter being formed at their folding-points with upward curves which give a rake to the bow and stern of the boat when set up.

2. The combination of a frangible receptacle shaped to simulate a War vessel and provided with an opening in its top side, and au explosive device inserted in said opening, and projecting within the receptacle and the fuse of such device being exterior of the receptacle, substantially as set forth.

MORRIS T. LYNCH. ALBERT R. HIBSON.

Witnesses PHILIP C. Puck, JOHN R. PAXTON, Jr. 

